Security Quotes

Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.

Victor Hugo

We hear of a silent generation more concerned with security than integrity with conforming than performing with imitating than creating.

Thomas J. Watson

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity they seem more afraid of life than of death.

James F. Byrnes

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

H.L. Mencken

Prudence keeps life safe but does not often make it happy.

Samuel Johnson

Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.

Anonymous

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.

Shirley Maclaine

Man's security comes from within himself.

Manly Hall

You are all you will ever have for certain.

June Havoc

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

Willa Cather

Your real security is yourself. You know you can do it and they can't ever take that away from you.

Mae West

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

William Congreve

Freedom works.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.

Oscar Wilde

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving ... if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre.

David Sarnoff

Security is a kind of death.

Tennessee Williams

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Dr. Harold W. Dodds

Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.

Mike Nichols

Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.

Carl Jung

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

John Steinbeck

There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity.

General Douglas MacArthur

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.

Henry Miller

If you want total security go to prison. There you're fed clothed given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.

Natalie Goldberg

Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.

Alice James

Happiness greatness pride-nothing is secure nothing keeps.

Euripides

There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.

Natalie Goldberg

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

It is the risk element which ensures security. Risk brings out the ingenuity and resourcefulness which insure success.

Robert Rawls

The way to be safe is never to be secure.

Benjamin Franklin

We are never more in danger than when we think ourselves most secure nor in reality more secure than when we seem to be most in danger.

William Cowper

It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

Dag Hammarskjöld

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.

Anonymous

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge experience and ability.

Henry Ford

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

John Cudahy

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.

William O. Douglas

Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Helen Keller

Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Paul Bowles

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.

Helen Keller

The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Henry Miller

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Eudora Welty

After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...

Neil Gaiman

Expecting to receive a rebuke, her heart lifted when she read the words on the page, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.

J.E.B. Spredemann

Sam looked at me soft. And she hugged me. And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.

Stephen Chbosky

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it oftensubsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened, is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.

George Eliot

I’m not some outdated alarm company, like Muldoon Security, singular. I’m offering a whole new variety of services, plural—water testing, soil graphs, toxic air readings, the security of this century. The security that you aren’t being poisoned in your own home.

Christopher Bollen

Ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren't just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.

Edward Snowden

Realistically, it's a risk, I suppose, but in this day and age, you almost have to choose between freedom, which can devolve into chaos, and security, which can become a pair of shackles.

Ann Aguirre

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both

Benjamin Franklin

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David Chiles

When the big things in our life start changing, we rely more heavily on small certainties to make us feel secure.

Kate Kerrigan

But, in making the sacrifices that the Government asks us to make, we are not protecting our freedom. We are giving away our freedom in exchange for a false sense of security.

Kenneth Eade

There are a countless variety of hardships in any life," Kedean answered,"...only the most basic of which can be solved with mansions, gold pieces, and titles of nobility.

Anihyr Moonstar

Only prisoners were ever granted easy passage into a prison.

Scott Lynch

Security ... what does this word mean in relation to life as we know it today? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for; but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut?Let us visualize the secure man; and by this term, I mean a man who has settled for financial and personal security for his goal in life. In general, he is a man who has pushed ambition and initiative aside and settled down, so to speak, in a boring, but safe and comfortable rut for the rest of his life. His future is but an extension of his present, and he accepts it as such with a complacent shrug of his shoulders. His ideas and ideals are those of society in general and he is accepted as a respectable, but average and prosaic man. But is he a man? has he any self-respect or pride in himself? How could he, when he has risked nothing and gained nothing? What does he think when he sees his youthful dreams of adventure, accomplishment, travel and romance buried under the cloak of conformity? How does he feel when he realizes that he has barely tasted the meal of life; when he sees the prison he has made for himself in pursuit of the almighty dollar? If he thinks this is all well and good, fine, but think of the tragedy of a man who has sacrificed his freedom on the altar of security, and wishes he could turn back the hands of time. A man is to be pitied who lacked the courage to accept the challenge of freedom and depart from the cushion of security and see life as it is instead of living it second-hand. Life has by-passed this man and he has watched from a secure place, afraid to seek anything better What has he done except to sit and wait for the tomorrow which never comes?Turn back the pages of history and see the men who have shaped the destiny of the world. Security was never theirs, but they lived rather than existed. Where would the world be if all men had sought security and not taken risks or gambled with their lives on the chance that, if they won, life would be different and richer? It is from the bystanders (who are in the vast majority) that we receive the propaganda that life is not worth living, that life is drudgery, that the ambitions of youth must he laid aside for a life which is but a painful wait for death. These are the ones who squeeze what excitement they can from life out of the imaginations and experiences of others through books and movies. These are the insignificant and forgotten men who preach conformity because it is all they know. These are the men who dream at night of what could have been, but who wake at dawn to take their places at the now-familiar rut and to merely exist through another day. For them, the romance of life is long dead and they are forced to go through the years on a treadmill, cursing their existence, yet afraid to die because of the unknown which faces them after death. They lacked the only true courage: the kind which enables men to face the unknown regardless of the consequences.As an afterthought, it seems hardly proper to write of life without once mentioning happiness; so we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?

Hunter S. Thompson

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